Frasi di Harold Innis

Harold Adams Innis è stato uno storico dell'economia canadese e pioniere negli studi di sociologia della comunicazione.

Grande è stata la sua influenza su teorici come Marshall McLuhan , Walter J. Ong e Eric Havelock. L'Innis College dell'Università di Toronto è dedicato alla sua memoria. Caratteristica della sua attività di studioso fu il forte senso di appartenenza al suo paese, il Canada, cui dedicò molti studi di storia economica; e la sua attenzione per i rapporti economici e culturali fra paesi imperialistici e paesi colonizzati. Egli cercò di creare una vera e propria scuola canadese di scienze sociali, che arrivasse a fare a meno di professori "importati" dalla Francia o dalla Gran Bretagna; si batté strenuamente per l'assegnazione di fondi alla ricerca scientifica da parte del governo. Egli considerava fondamentale, per la sopravvivenza della civiltà occidentale, il ruolo delle università come liberi centri di pensiero critico. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Novembre 1894 – 8. Novembre 1952
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Harold Innis: Frasi in inglese

“A change in the type of medium implies a change in the type of appraisal and hence makes it difficult for one civilization to understand another.”

Harold Innis libro Empire and Communications

2007 edition, p. 29.
Empire and Communications (1950)
Contesto: The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the media, and indeed the fact of appraisal appears to be peculiar to certain types of media. A change in the type of medium implies a change in the type of appraisal and hence makes it difficult for one civilization to understand another.

“The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.”

Conclusion, p. 393.
The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)
Contesto: Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and dominated by the Canadian Shield. The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.

“The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.”

Industrialism and Cultural Values p. 139.
The Bias of Communication (1951)

“The voice of a second-rate person is more impressive than the published opinion of superior ability.”

Harold Innis libro Empire and Communications

2007 edition, p. 31.
Empire and Communications (1950)
Contesto: Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the third remove. The voice of a second-rate person is more impressive than the published opinion of superior ability.

“The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.”

Minerva's Owl (1947), an address to the Royal Society of Canada, published in The Bias of Communication (1951) p. 10.
The Bias of Communication (1951)

“We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.”

Conclusion (1930) of The Fur Trade in Canada, (1970 edition), p. 392.
The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)

“The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms.”

The Beaver (1930) Part I of The Fur Trade in Canada, (1970 edition), p. 3.
The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)

“The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.”

Industrialism and Cultural Values (1950), a paper presented at meetings of the American Economic Association in Chicago, published in The Bias of Communication (1951) p. 138.
The Bias of Communication (1951)

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